Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...had traveled to attend Camp Fasola Europe and the Poland Sacred Harp Convention, and the metaphorical space Sacred Harp singing itself had traveled to make these events possible. Ties between...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...West Bay at the mouth of the Mississippi in the lower Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The Corps now plans to use sediment dredged from the river to accomplish the same goal...
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
...Pierce, Florida in 1937. Arthur Rothstein. Packing fruit in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-002342-M5....
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In North Carolina, the state Supreme Court rejected a request filed by several state organizations asking that recently re-elected Justice Paul Newby recuse...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...at Chapel Hill for digitizing the 1920s market bulletins from Raleigh, North Carolina, which appear in the video. This presentation, given at Woodruff Library at Emory University, April 24, 2012,...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...and filmmaker Matt Miller uses the realities of Hurricane Katrina to orient his careful and detailed history of New Orleans rap and the intensely local native New Orleans rap style,...
Welcome!
...new cultural non-profit collecting 78rpm records, to the use of Confederate flags at Croatian soccer games, we will present short, scholarly posts about subjects that engage with southern spaces. Provide...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...singer Warren Steel was expanding the biographical and historical notes of the book for a separate volume. In Makers of the Sacred Harp, Steel and contributing author Richard Hulan present...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...would all depend on what element we played for. Because there were the upper class, or elite, black people . . . and you couldn't play no low-down funky blues...
Roadside Architecture
...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...